Outcome: the comments made recently on several points of the Custom Data interface specification were addressed. Previously we had defined terms and objects such a s a Custom Data Container and a Custom Data Source to describe the roles of these entities. The Use Case 004 about copying Material Object content was revised in depth in order to make it more understandable to potential readers. Copying of Material Object content may involve copying of Custom Data Containers and the rules to be applied need to be made explicit. This is particularly true when considering copying between different threads. Use Case 005 was developed on the transfer of custom data between different instances of Custom Data Source.

The glossary was improved in its definition of a Custom Data Source. The summary to the document was modified to better reflect the document contents. Minor modifications were made to the requirements section in order to make it consistent with the modifications brought to Use Cases 004 and 005. Same for some editing of the section pertaining to interface definition.

Any CO-LaN Member interested in the Thermo SIG activities is welcome to join this Special Interest Group. Contact the co-leaders of the SIG for further information: Sergej BLAGOV at BASF (sergej.blagov@basf.com) and Jasper van BATEN at AmsterCHEM (jasper@amsterchem.com).

CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation socket in SuperPro Designer®

Advanced Process Engineering Co-Simulator (APECS)

Model-centric process engineering

DyOS is a software tool for the solution of dynamic optimization problems.DyOS allows the model to be accessed via a so-called Equation Set Object (ESO) interface, a standard developed in the CAPE-OPEN project.

CAPE-OPEN at TOTAL

Use of CAPE-OPEN at BP as of 2008

Air Liquide use of CAPE-OPEN

This report, made at the CAPE-OPEN 2008 European Conference, covers actions related to CAPE-OPEN between 2004 and 2008. Air Liquide has been leveraging on CAPE-OPEN to streamline the process of developing and distributing thermodynamic expertise within its engineering functions.

CAPE-OPEN Property Package for ChemSep

CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation socket in UniSim Design

Honeywell Process Solutions was awarded funding within the Consultancy Services scheme. Outcome of this action was reported by Martin ROSS, UniSim Product Manager, at the CAPE-OPEN 2014 Annual Meeting, held on September 10-11, 2014 in Mörfelden, Germany.

Consultancy Services: how does it work?

The purpose of the Consultancy Services scheme is to provide assistance, in the form of access to a specialist consultant and funding, in the new implementation of CAPE-OPEN interfaces or the improvement of existing interface implementations. Look out for the next round of service requests and apply.

Dynamic simulation and numerical analysis tool

The simulation environment Diana (Dynamic simulation and numerical analysis tool) performs the numerical analysis of problems such as the ones usually found in process engineering.

One of the main aspects of Diana is that it relies on the CAPE-OPEN Numerical interfaces. The models handled by the solvers within the numerical kernel of Diana, or plugged in Diana, are object-oriented models based on the CAPE-OPEN Equation Set Object (ESO) concept.